An Introduction to the Practice of FAP (in French)
Co-leaders Benji Schoendorff and Marie-France Bolduc
Online FAP training Wednesdays noon - 1:45pm Pacific Time
Topics will include: Five guidelines and concrete exercises to increase connection and intensity in your therapeutic interventions, functional analysis to help you decide the most effective techniques for clients with diverse histories and issues, when commonly used interventions can be inadvertently counter-therapeutic, how to make the hidden meanings of your clients' communications more visible, and how to best use yourself as a potent agent of change. Powerpoint presentations, session transcripts, discussions and experiential exercises will be used as teaching tools. You will have the option of presenting and getting feedback on your own work. Weekly homework assignments that generate self-disclosure and risk-taking will further facilitate your learning process. This will be an intense bonding and personal growth experience. Homework assignments will take 2-4 hours per week to complete; some of these assignments involve interactions with your clients. Space is limited to 8 participants per group. Click "contact us" for more information. Led by Mavis Tsai and Stig Helweg-jørgensen. Additional group led by Katia Manduchi.
An Introduction to the Practice of FAP (in French)
Co-leaders Benji Schoendorff and Marie-France Bolduc
Integrating ACT and FAP with the Matrix (in English with Portuguese translation)
Co-leaders Benji Schoendorff and Marie-France Bolduc
Introductory FAP Workshop
Training conducted by Mavis Tsai Ph.D.; Robert Kohlenberg Ph.D., ABPP. Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) is a “here and now” therapy that focuses on the subtle ways clients’ daily life problems occur in the therapy session. FAP uses awareness, courage, love and behaviorism in the therapist-client relationship to produce significant change, and can be applied to a wide range of clinical problems, including: depression, anxiety, intimacy difficulties, personality disorders, problems of the self, substance abuse, OCD, and couples work. Considered one of the new generation innovative Cognitive Behavior Therapies identified as “Third Wave”, FAP is integrative, and provides a conceptual and practical framework that will help super-charge your next therapy session. The workshop will include videotaped therapy sessions, experiential exercises, demonstrations and handouts that can be used with clients.
Introduction to the Practice of FAP (in English)
Co-leaders Benji Schoendorff and Stig Helweg-Jorgensen. For details contact benjamin.schoendorff@gmail.com
Integrating ACT and FAP with the Matrix--CANCELLED
FAP: Theory and Practice
Workshop at ABAI (Association for Behavior Analysis International) led by Mavis Tsai, Bob Kohlenberg, Mary Plummer Loudon and Gareth Holman
With behavioral roots, functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP) considers a caring, genuine, sensitive, and emotional client-therapist relationship to be the most important element in the change process. FAP focuses on the subtle ways clients' daily life problems occur in the therapy session; all interventions are informed by clearly stated and understandable behavioral principles. FAP uses awareness, courage, love, and behaviorism in the therapist-client relationship to produce significant change, and can be applied to a wide range of clinical problems, including depression, anxiety, intimacy difficulties, personality disorders, problems of the self, substance abuse, OCD, and couples work. Considered one of the new generation innovative cognitive behavior therapies identified as "third wave," FAP is integrative and provides a conceptual and practical framework that will help super-charge your next therapy session. The workshop will include videotaped therapy sessions, experiential exercises, demonstrations, and handouts that can be used with clients.
Level II Advanced FAP Workshop
This workshop is for those who have already attended an introductory weekend workshop. There will be some didactics and a lot of small group experiential work so that you will: 1) gain a deeper understanding of and skill in using functional analysis. 2) notice what you avoid and have opportunities to exercise courage. 3) explore with compassion the deeper recesses of your true self. 4) practice repeatedly giving feedback from your heart that will shape CRB2s in others. 5) see more clearly your behaviors that distance others versus those that invite closeness. The overall goals of this workshop are to help you: 1) develop a more solid behavioral foundation in explaining and accounting for the above, 2) become a more effective source of reinforcement for your clients, 3) find the best balance in terms of being able to do FAP analyses/implement the 5 rules and acting from your heart, and, 4) express your true self more whole-heartedly, not only in the therapy room, but in your daily life. Click on "contact us" for more information or to register.
Treating the Worst Disease in the World with the Best Treatment in the World: Maximizing Your Effectiveness in Behavioral Activation for Depression (with FAP component)
Please contact workshop leader Jonathan Kanter for more information: jkanter@uwm.edu
Using FAP to Maximize the Power of Your Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Interventions
Please contact workshop leader Jonathan Kanter for more information: jkanter@uwm.edu
Using FAP to Maximize the Power of Your Therapeutic Relationships
Please contact workshop leader Jonathan Kanter for more information: jkanter@uwm.edu
Level III Advanced Workshop
Participants are limited to those who have attended a previous advanced workshop. Topics: new or more in-depth didactics (e.g., functional analysis, working with CRB1s and evoking 2s more effectively, supervisory principles), practicing qualities important in being a FAP trainer/supervisor as well as FAP therapist, and experiential exercises (including ones we haven't done before). The idea is that it will give more or different advanced training to those who have already taken an advanced workshop. Co-led by Mavis Tsai, Bob Kohlenberg, Jonathan Kanter and Mary Plummer Loudon. Please click on "contact us" if you are interested in more information or registering.
Using FAP to Maximize the Power of Your Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Interventions
This ACBS (Association for Contextual Behavioral Science) pre-conference workshop will help you explore how the primary features of FAP can maximize the power of your therapeutic relationships as you conduct ACT with clients. The emphasis will be experiential, geared toward active learning, interaction and engagement. Participants will get a chance to explore new FAP experiential exercises as well as ACT exercises with an interpersonal FAP twist. They will be encouraged to take strategic interpersonal risks to facilitate personal growth while cultivating mindfulness of the relationship. FAP encourages bringing out the best in who you are so you can fully commit to your relationships with those who are important to you, including your clients, and to make space for the vulnerability that entails. FAP is about expanding and living up to our full potential as human beings for whom loving and living with other human beings is fundamental. An important assumption in FAP is that the therapy relationship is a real relationship; therefore this workshop aims to train you in FAP skills through practicing your increased ability to connect with and be fully present in your relationships. In so doing, you will also explore how using FAP skills can help therapy get unstuck even with the most difficult clients. Co-led by Jonathan Kanter and Benji Schoendorff
Integrating ACT and FAP with the Matrix
For more information, contact Benji Schoendorff at benjamin.schoendorff@gmail.com